4770K - The CPU that just keeps on giving!

Gimpymoo · 29 Dec 2017 at 22:54

Unbelievable.

Forgot how long I have had it now but in terms of bang for buck, best CPU I have had since the AMD 720BE x3.

I am expecting it to start maybe ageing rapidly in the next 18 months but even then, all depends if more cores are needed but as for gaming, 4 cores is still not a mandatory requirement for great performance.

z10m · 30 Dec 2017 at 09:44

Gimpymoo said:
Unbelievable.

Forgot how long I have had it now but in terms of bang for buck, best CPU I have had since the AMD 720BE x3.

I am expecting it to start maybe ageing rapidly in the next 18 months but even then, all depends if more cores are needed but as for gaming, 4 cores is still not a mandatory requirement for great performance.

Depends what games you are playing and how high your 4770K is clocked. In my htpc I got 4790 (non K) clocked at 4.1ghz and in some games it struggles to maintain 60fps at all times (Destiny 2 is one of those games).

Phixsator · 30 Dec 2017 at 13:02

z10m said:
Depends what games you are playing and how high your 4770K is clocked. In my htpc I got 4790 (non K) clocked at 4.1ghz and in some games it struggles to maintain 60fps at all times (Destiny 2 is one of those games).

a 4770k will not bottleneck a GTX 1080 running at 4k. My 4770k when oced to a mild 4,3 was only holding back my 1080ti slightly at 1440p in a few rare titles and i certainly did not have any issues staying above 60 in destiny 2.

psychas · 30 Dec 2017 at 13:26

yea 4770 and 4790k pretty good if with decent memory few % behind 7700k , i'll keep mine bit longer

~>Dg<~ · 30 Dec 2017 at 13:36

i have one in another pc runs pretty much everything thrown at it.not bad cpu.

Phage · 30 Dec 2017 at 16:09

It's a lovely chip.
I only upgraded as 64-player maps in BF1 were maxing it out at 4.3, and I had the luck to buy a 1700x system cheap at the time.

z10m · 30 Dec 2017 at 17:18

Phixsator said:
staying above 60 in destiny 2.

Yeah right I’d like to see that.
Now if you’d said staying mostly above 60fps than fair enough.

Doogles · 30 Dec 2017 at 17:21

z10m said:
Yeah right I’d like to see that.
Now if you’d said staying mostly above 60fps than fair enough.

I was playing the Beta and keeping above 60 fps at all time with the settings lowered.

z10m · 30 Dec 2017 at 17:55

Doogles said:
I was playing the Beta and keeping above 60 fps at all time with the settings lowered.

Yeah beta was not so cpu intensive it’s open areas with other players that struggles.

Rroff · 30 Dec 2017 at 17:58

Still using the 4820K which is the business oriented equivalent of the CPU - handles everything no sweat - struggle to justify upgrading but when I do will be at least 8 core / 16 thread anything else wouldn't feel like an upgrade.

Phixsator · 30 Dec 2017 at 20:43

z10m said:
Yeah right I’d like to see that.
Now if you’d said staying mostly above 60fps than fair enough.

Well give me a troublesome location in the game and i'll have another look. When i played before the expansion hit i had absolutely no issues with framerate and while i didnt completely the end game i did manage to get to around 275ish or there about before being bored out of my skull.

Doogles · 30 Dec 2017 at 21:07

Rroff said:
Still using the 4820K which is the business oriented equivalent of the CPU - handles everything no sweat - struggle to justify upgrading but when I do will be at least 8 core / 16 thread anything else wouldn't feel like an upgrade.

Unless DDR4 pricing drops I'll wait until 2020 for DDR5 then I'll pick up second hand hardware with DDR4, it's really annoyed me how manufactures think it's okay to double the pricing.

Phixsator · 31 Dec 2017 at 08:16

Doogles said:
Unless DDR4 pricing drops I'll wait until 2020 for DDR5 then I'll pick up second hand hardware with DDR4, it's really annoyed me how manufactures think it's okay to double the pricing.

Well there are rumours of price fixing in that market which apparently are being looked into. Dunno if it is true or not but i wouldnt be surprised as it has happened before.

r22snapper · 2 Jan 2018 at 11:34

Rroff said:
Still using the 4820K which is the business oriented equivalent of the CPU - handles everything no sweat - struggle to justify upgrading but when I do will be at least 8 core / 16 thread anything else wouldn't feel like an upgrade.

Same here. Whoever is first to give me 8/16 that can do 4.5GHz for reasonable money will get my next upgrade cash.

Glanza · 2 Jan 2018 at 11:40

Mine never let me down and that was clocked @ 4.5 from the day I got it, only upgraded due to wanting more cores.

Gimpymoo · 2 Jan 2018 at 12:48

r22snapper said:
Same here. Whoever is first to give me 8/16 that can do 4.5GHz for reasonable money will get my next upgrade cash.

This.

Robzere31 · 2 Jan 2018 at 14:32

My 4770k was excellent, 4.5ghz 24/7 for nearly 3 years.
Only sold & "upgraded" to my 7700k because I got a very good deal.

pandem0nium · 2 Jan 2018 at 14:42

Rroff said:
Still using the 4820K which is the business oriented equivalent of the CPU - handles everything no sweat - struggle to justify upgrading but when I do will be at least 8 core / 16 thread anything else wouldn't feel like an upgrade.

Not really, it's the previous gen ivy.

Admetos · 2 Jan 2018 at 15:07

Still using my i7 4770k, had it with 32GB of RAM when memory was dirt cheap. Reckon there is another 2 years left of use in it, hopefully DDR 4 prices will be lower by then.

ScoTTyBEEE · 2 Jan 2018 at 17:09

4 years @ 4.4ghz, never let me down and still waiting on the 8/16 upgrade. Is this the new sandybridge? Can we keep posting every week how amazing it is and how much money we've saved and how it's not worth upgrading at all (please, please don't).